Anxious of receiveing a letter from you, and waiting with this
expecttation for some time, I have neglected writeing to you; but I hope this
neglect will be pardoned, as it was not through any want of respect for you,
and I likewise hope that it will not be long before I receive a letter from
you. I informed you in my last what I was studying, therefore I think it
unnecessary now to do so. There are now at this
University about 90 students, among whom there
appeares to be a great regularity, and an ardent desire to acquire knowledge,
which is the only quality that will carry a man through this life with
respectability, provided it is used
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in a proper
manner, and conducted through the chanels of reason, usefulness, and virtue, to
this we are indebted for our independance, and many other advantages which we
injoy. One of the students by the name of
Mr Soloman Kittrall
lately lost his Farther, and on that
account has quit this place. I was lately at
Raleigh
in the time of the
Methodist conference, where I saw many of
our acquaintances from
Hallifax; and likewise of
Raleigh
they all desiered their compliments to you and the famerly It is with the
utmost satisfaction that I am able to inform you that there is a gentleman by
the name of
Mr Close
2 from
Stokes
county, who has undertaken to compleate the new building in two years
for $23,000,
3 he has
lately arrived here and is now preparing the necessary articles to carry on the
building; it is to be supposed that
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when this
building is compleated that the number of students will be greatly augmented.
Tell my sisters that they must write to me together with all my acquaintances.
Give my love to them all here is wishing that you and the famerly may ever
enjoy all the blessing that can flow from the hand above